May 19, 2008

Today was a very quiet day. I finally got through to my mom this morning using my SKYPE connection, and she's happy to see us. We then went and found the car rental location, and finally got a copy of the rental agreement (oh, I think I forgot to mention it before, but somewhere during our journey through France, I realized that I had no paperwork for our car rental, and they only have locations in Germany, so until we got back to here, we couldn't get a copy.) I guess the guy who rented us the car neglected to give me a copy. I happened to be reading something on our roadmap, and there was a note on there about the requirements for driving in Europe, one of them a copy of the car rental agreement, ooooops.

Anyway, we then went to the train station and reserved our seats to Budapest, then found out that we were nowhere near the station where the train was leaving from, it was about 10 minutes away. So off we went to locate it, for tomorrow. There is a car rental outlet across from the station so we figured once we found it, we would find the station. I needed to know where to drop Jan off with the luggage while I dropped the car off in the morning. We found the station, relatively easily, but it took, three trips around the block, and a stop at the police station, where they didn't speak English, to finally find their office. There is a tiny sign, on the wall pointing to a parking lot driveway, where I have to take the car, then walk a block or so to the train station. This is different from the location on both GPS units.





Our train for Budapest leaves at 9:30 in the morning, so we need to be there by shortly after 8:00 am so I have time to leave the car, find Jan and the luggage and get on the train at 9:00 am At the moment, we are the only passengers in the car (that could change by train time) in a compartment. We'll take some pictures to share, of our journey. Mom is going to try meeting us at the train station in Budapest.

After this we returned to the hotel to rest, and repack our luggage, clean the car, and fill the gas tank. Tomorrow we start another, final leg of our holiday. We want to do some travelling in Hungary, which we'll probably do by train as we will have 4 days left on our passes to do so. Our blog might be a little less frequent as we'll have to use an internet cafe to post them, but we plan to do so, every couple of days as and when we can.